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It's about 9 on a Wednesday night at the Horseshoe Pit, a little enclave in Golden Gate Park where dozens of burners have gathered to light up and spin their fire toys. There's...
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Here's an odd phenomenon: History has proven that when musicians (singers, mainly) try their hand at acting, they often do a damn fine job. Al Jolson, Frank Sinatra, Kris...
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"I'm thinking about doing a piece on oyster bars," I said idly to Jeff over the phone. "Wait for me!" he commanded, and I was willing, because he and his friend John were...
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Since its initial publication in 1986, myriad filmmakers have attempted in vain to film Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons' comic book Watchmen, in which costumed superheroes have...
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At home we generally like to be surrounded by comfort. Cushy chairs. Cozy sofas. Nothing hard or glaring. But SFMOMA Artists Gallery's "Furniture as Art" show envisions a...
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Here's the point: When the brief, intense, intermissionless, odd, and in some ways very formal Eurydice ended on the night I attended at the Berkeley Rep, half the audience was...
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For the second year in a row, San Francisco revelers were treated to a relatively tame party in the Castro on Halloween, with a heavy and visible police presence maintaining...
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As Subtle band members Dax Pierson and Jel, aka Jeffrey Logan, place their orders with the barrista at an East Bay coffee shop, MC Doseone, aka Adam Drucker, offers to pay for...
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In an attempt to get my mind off the elections (but really because I had a surfeit of frequent-flier miles that were about to expire), I took a trip to Hawaii a couple of weeks...
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Writer-director Charles Shyer's Alfie is less a remake of the 1966 film that made Michael Caine a star than it is a retooling that softens the horrific blows struck by the...
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Wednesday, November 3, 2004
By the time you read this, you'll know whether we have a new president or not (that tidbit was unavailable at press time). Either way, Bay Area...
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Mollena Williams' first monologue, 69 Stories, started three years ago as a sort of pervert's confessional: Theater mixed with post-show Q&A about sadomasochism and your more...
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Standing at the urinal at the Pilsner Inn, releasing what seems like a keg of Anchor Steam, we look up to find the face of a sweaty, sullen boy, half-sexy, half-sleepy, looking...
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"Our approach is to find a new instrument and figure out what new things it can do," says Sleepytime Gorilla Museum's Dan Rathbun. "And then we write songs around those...
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Commentary by Gregg Rickman (greggr1@mindspring.com). Times compiled from information available Tuesday; it's always advisable to call for confirmation. Price given is standard...
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The American Indian Film Festival is the world's oldest event dedicated to Native American cinema. Its 29th edition opens this week with a program full of documentaries --...
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Wayne Harris' terrific new one-man show at the Marsh deals with three characters on and around a Pullman car in the 1940s, who each tell fragments of a story about a lean and...
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We Didn't Know Who Won When We Printed This
Yo Soy Centroamericano [Matt Smith, Oct. 20] contained several factual errors that require correction.
First, while there is...
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The problem with a lot of electronic music is that it either takes itself too seriously or not seriously enough. Psapp offers the perfect solution (if also a less than perfect...
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There was a time -- Biblical times, to be exact -- when the world's Jewish population was concentrated in the Middle East. But these days there's hardly a country...
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